Razor-strop



(No Model.)

J. R. TORREY.

RAZOR STROP.

Patented June 19 U/l'fnesses N. versus. Phmoiillwgrupher. Washington. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH R. TORREY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAZOR-STROP.

A SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent I570. 279,615, dated June 19, 1883. Application filed February 17, 1B83. (No model.)

To .aZZ whom it. may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. TORREY, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Strops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

' reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and operating ings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a four-sided razor-strop with my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents amodification, showing a perspective view of a twosided razor-strop with my improvements applied tothe same; and Fig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section of the strop shown in Fig. 1.

My invention relates to improvements on the patent granted to me for razor-strops, No. 229,342, dated June 29, 1880 and it consists in making one side of the strop with an elastic strap, in combination with the cushioned part upon the opposite side, and supporting, holdparts of the strop, as here inafter more fully set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art'to which my invention belongs to make and use thesame, Iwill proceed to describe it morein detail.

In the drawings, A represents the central block or supporting part of the strop, which is provided at one end with the usual crosspiece, a, for elevating the stropping parts off of said block, and at the other end with longi tudinal openings to receive the central screw, 1), and holding-rods c c. The screw 7) is fastened in the end of the handle B, and is fitted to move longitudinally in, itsopening in block A, while theholding-rods c c, which are also secured to the end of the handle, are rigidly fastened at their other ends in said block. A nut, (J, is also fitted over the screw b between the end of the block and the end D of strap D. By this arrangement, as will be seen, the stropping-surfaces D and E may be tightened or loosened, as required, by turning handle B. The strap D and the elastic cushioned part E are united at their-ends by overlapping and gluing or otherwise fastening said ends together to form a continuous connection around the central block, A, as in the patent before cited. Said strap D and cushioned part E are properly held upon the strop as shown in the drawings, by means of tacks a passed through their outer ends into the end of block A, and by passing the central screw, b, through their opposite united ends.

In the drawings the cushioned part E is represented as lying directly against the side of thesupporting-block, which is the method I prefer to adopt in practice; but, if desired, the cross-piece a and nut 0 maybe made so as to elevate it off of said surface in the same manner as the belt-strap is elevated upon the opposite side. Said cross-piece a may be made separateand fastened to the end of block A, as shownand described; or projections may be formed upon one or both sides to elevate the stropping-surfaces.

If preferred, the holding-rods c 0 may be dispensed with and only the screw 1) employed, as shown in Fig. 2, in which case the screw would have a solid hearing at its inner end against the block to obtain a resistance in tightening up the stroppingsurfitces.

The strop may be made with four stropping surfaces," like that shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or with only two, as shown in Fig. 2; in which latter case the cross-piece a maybe left off and the side of the central block cut away under the strap, as shown.

The two exposed sides F of the four-sided strop may be covered with either hard honing or soft cushioned stropping-surlaces of ordinary construction, and said cushioned stroppin'gsurfaces and cushioned part E may be filled with any suitable stufiing material desired. The hard honing-surfaces would 'be made by fastening strips of leather to the surface of block A and covering the same with any suitable honing material in the usual way.

Although I am enabled to obtain very good results in sharpening a razor upon my old form of strop, (covered by the patent before referred to,) they are not entirely satisfactory, a much sharper and finer cutting-edge being obtained by the use of my improved strop. In sharpenin g a razor upon said strop it is first applied to one and then the other of the two sides F,

then to the cushioned surface E, which latter produces quite a fine ed e upon said razor, invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pat and about such an edge as would be obtained cnt, is-

by the use of my old strop. vA still sharper The combination of the elastic strap D with 15 5 and very fine cutting-edge may now be given the elastic cushioned part E, central support to the razor by stropping it back and forth ingblook, A, screw b, nut C, and handle B, sub

over the elastic strap 1), a fine-grained strap, I stantially as shown and described.

strops, what I claim therein as new and of my as is well known, giving to the edge of a razor JOSEPH R. TORREC in finishing the sharpening operation as fine a Witnesses: 1o cutting-edge as it is possible to obtain. CHARLES S. HALE,

Having described my iinproveinentsin razor- FRANK S. HALE. 

